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Violin Concerto Nº 1: Generation : for violin and symphonic band / Yip Ho Kwen Austin

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: vn-solo picc 2fl ob 4cl cl-b 2sax-a sax-ten sax-bar 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b 2euph 2tb timp 4perc db

Little Lethe symphony : voor orkest / Hans Kox

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2222 2200 timp str

Symphony II : (opus 30), for orchestra, (1983) / Peter Schat

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: pic 2fl fl(fl-a) 3ob eh 3cl cl-b 4sax 4h 3trp 3trb 2tb 5perc 2hp str

Anagrammen : voor orkest / Guillaume Landré

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2222 4330 timp 2perc str

compositie

Metamorphosis : for orchestra / Yip Ho Kwen Austin

Overige auteurs:
Yip, Austin (Componist)
Toelichting:
Artists often like to develop their works around the concept of “metamorphosis”, but the understanding of “metamorphosis” varies among people. With Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”, people often regard the title as the “change of form”, rather than an “improved change”—because the protagonist wakes up one day and realises himself being transformed into a giant insect. Such transformation differs from people’s normal understanding of the term “metamorphosis”, which is often the process to transform something from an immature state to a relatively more mature state. However, Kafka’s protagonist transforms from the family’s support into a gigantic burden in just one night. In the reader’s eyes, it seems as if the title “Metamorphosis” refers more to the transformation of the protagonist’s family, which turns well after the protagonist’s death, rather than the protagonist himself.
This work, entitled “Metamorphosis”, is to be paired up with its Chinese name, “Po Kan”, which literally means “to break through a cocoon”. It depicts the moment of how a troublesome matter resolves, and the short instance right after the process. Similar to how a worm transforms into a cocoon, and then to a butterfly, after the process of metamorphosis, the short instance of beauty gradually changes, and eventually the butterfly faces death. In Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”, the protagonist’s family seems to have a bright life after the protagonist dies, but actually no one knows what happens to them next. Nonetheless, everyone enjoys the moment of the transformation.
Austin Yip